The Wytches

The Wytches formed in Brighton in 2011 after meeting at music college. During their first year they relentlessly played any show they could find and rapidly began picking up traction. In 2013 the band signed their first record deals with Heavenly Recordings and Partisan (USA). 2014 saw the release of their debut album Annabel Dream Reader and they would tour the world throughout the year, headlining shows and sharing stages with the likes of METZ, Cloud Nothings, Blood Red Shoes, Pixies and Jamie T.

Since then, The Wytches have released two further albums and countless EPs. 2020 saw the band release their third album Three Mile Ditch on their own label Cable Code Records—an explosive collection of 10 tracks that weaves seamlessly between gut-wobbling monster riffs, swampy rock, slick surf, and finely tuned song craft.

With the return of live music in 2021, the band appeared at a handful of UK festivals including Bigfoot, Handmade and Norwich Psych Fest, and were finally able to embark on a tour in support of Three Mile Ditch in October 2022. The album tour was a great success and allowed the band to showcase the new songs for the first time since recording back in 2019.

The Wytches’ latest album Our Guest Can’t Be Named was released in 2023 on vinyl and digitally, with a special Dinked edition (500 copies) containing a glow in the dark patch and several original Super 8 film cells from video for lead single 'Maria' on a signed collectors card.

Our Guest Can’t Be Named was recorded with Luke Oldfield at Tilehouse Studios, Uxbridge in the long hot summer of July 2022, after the last few years had a profound effect on vocalist Kristian Bell and his bandmates that seeped its way into the bones of the record.

Pressed on actual X-Rays, their latest 2023 single ‘Zep Step’ (limited to just 15 copies) was inspired by the work of Soviet Union dissidents in the 1950s who defied the authorities by importing banned Western music, pressing it on begged, stolen or borrowed X-Rays from local hospitals. This 'bone music' (roentgenizdat) was smuggled past the regular pressing plants, and thus brought genuinely progressive music to the population, allowing people to express themselves in the face of appalling anti-cultural agendas.